Assessing the impact of Syrian refugees on earthquake fatality estimations in southeast Turkey

Wilson, Bradley; Paradise, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-257-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

Research article

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19 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 19 Jan 2018

Assessing the impact of Syrian refugees on earthquake fatality estimations in southeast Turkey

Bradley Wilson and Thomas Paradise

Data sets

Seismic Hazard Harmonization in Europe (SHARE): Online Data Resource D. Giardini, J. Woessner, L. Danciu, H. Crowley, F. Cotton, G. Grünthal, R. Pinho, G. Valensise, S. Akkar, R. Arvidsson, R. Basili, T. Cameelbeeck, A. Campos-Costa, J. Douglas, M. Demircioglu, M. Erdik, J. Fonseca, B. Glavotovic, C. Lindholm, K. Makropoulos, C. Meletti, R. Musson, K. Pitilakis, K. Sesetyan, D. Stromeyer, M. Stucchi, and A. Rovida https://doi.org/10.12686/SED-00000001-SHARE

Short summary

Refugee populations are often unaccounted for in population models used in earthquake fatality estimations. This paper calculates and compares fatality estimations produced with and without refugee populations in southeastern Turkey. Refugee populations added non-negligible contributions to earthquake fatalities at four of five fault locations, increasing total fatalities by 7–27 %. These findings show the importance of including refugee statistics in earthquake fatality estimations.